She’s Electric: Ellis’ Story

She’s Electric: Ellis’ Story

In the first of a short series of posts, we share with you sections from the SHE’S ELECTRIC book that won’t make it into the film. Here, Ellis – one of the main characters – gives us some of his back story…

What a fantastic time to be young.

Imagine being so full of energy that you don’t know where to be or what to do. Imagine having a head so full of plans and ideas that you can’t sleep. Imagine suddenly finding the place and the moment which promises to make everything you ever dreamt of come true. It’s hard to put into words what it felt like wake up from a life of family pressure and school to have this perfect storm of ambition and opportunity swirling around me. Until that moment, I’d just been gestating in a state of enforced education and social convention. I was finally born in 1994. I had been delivered into a world which was about to get a load of the real Ellis …in a big way. That’s what it felt like when I set my bags down in Calvin Road on my first morning on earth…